Monday, August 3, 2026

Not Seeing Oneself

Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays of Montaigne, tr. Donald M. Frame (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1966 [1957]), I:23, 83:

Men receive the advice of truth and its precepts as if addressed to the common people, never to themselves; and each man, instead of incorporating them into his behavior, incorporates them into his memory, very stupidly and uselessly.
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